Henry Frnka

Head coach, Tulane, 1946 to 1951
Before: Tulsa

College career71-32-5

Program liftNo. 594tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

Pick a job to see its years on their own.

Tulsa1941–45 · 40-9-1Tulane1946–51 · 31-23-4All jobs71-32-5

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.

One-score games

4-7-1

33.3% · margin ≤8

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

3-4 42.9%

National Program

11-3 78.6%

Regional Program

13-1 92.9%

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

1-3 against his rivals at Tulane. Winless in 4 tries against Frank Leahy.

Rivalry record

1-3-2

16.7% · 1 rival

One-score games

7-7-4

38.9% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-4

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

LSU1-3-217%

The toughest matchup

vs. Frank Leahy0-4

4 meetings, 1946–1950

’46 L’47 L’49 L’50 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Dynasty

0-3 0.0%

Blue Blood

0-1 0.0%

Power Program

5-11 31.2%

National Program

14-7 66.7%

Regional Program

8-1 88.9%

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

1-3 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Frank Leahy.

Rivalry record

1-3-2

16.7% · 1 rival

One-score games

11-14-5

36.7% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-4

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

LSU1-3-217%

The toughest matchup

vs. Frank Leahy0-4

4 meetings, 1946–1950

’46 L’47 L’49 L’50 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Dynasty

0-3 0.0%

Blue Blood

0-1 0.0%

Power Program

8-15 34.8%

National Program

25-10 71.4%

Regional Program

21-2 91.3%

Building the roster

Three numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Who followed him
2Roster ownership
3The NFL pipeline

Followed him here

Tulsa→

Tulane1946

No confirmed followers on this move. This move predates this database’s 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor, so real followers may be undercounted here.

Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1946-1951) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least8Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 8 — his 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 8 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1952	R5.44	Estimated
1951	R2.16	Estimated
1951	R3.34	Estimated
1951	R4.42	Estimated
1951	R6.62	Estimated
1951	R7.70	Estimated
1950	R2.19	Estimated
1950	R3.27	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.

Henry Frnka

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

The big-game ledger

Building the roster

Followed him here

Roster ownership

The NFL pipeline

Career

Coaching career

Was he good?